The Supreme Court on Friday (May 23, 2025) spared a convict, who married the victim, from undergoing a jail term under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, citing systemic failures and the need to ensure justice for the adolescent girl and her child. A bench comprising Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal … Read more
A resident of Gauraye village in the Kaushambi district, Lakhan, born on January 4 1921, according to his jail records, was arrested in 1977. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A 104-year-old man who spent 43 years in jail on charges of murder and attempted murder was released from Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district jail after … Read more
On February 27, 2002, 59 people were killed when the S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express was burnt at Gujarat’s Godhra, triggering riots in the State. File | Photo Credit: AP “A 55-year-old life convict in Godhra train carnage case of 2002, who had jumped parole and absconded, has been arrested in Maharashtra’s Pune district in … Read more
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on the bail application of Mirza Himayat Baig, an accused in the 2010 Nashik terror plot case. He was also convicted for the German Bakery terror attack in Pune. Baig is currently serving a life sentence at Nashik Central Prison for his involvement in the bomb … Read more
The Kerala High Court has directed the Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services to grant 15 days leave to a life convict lodged at the Central Prison, Viyyur, to undergo fertility treatment under In Vitro Fertilisation/Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (IVF/ICSI) to have a child. The court passed the order on a petition filed by his … Read more